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Margaret Le DESPENSER

Margaret Le DESPENSER[1]

Female Abt 1365 - 1415  (~ 50 years)


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  • Name Margaret Le DESPENSER  [2, 3, 4
    Birth Abt 1365  Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Name de Ferrers  [5
    Name Margaret Despenser  [5
    _FSFTID LYJ2-G1L 
    _FSLINK https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LYJ2-G1L 
    _UID 768DFE93FE42472EA9C60AB3ECF5FA9BEBAB 
    Death 3 Nov 1415  Bugbrooke, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4
    Burial 3 Nov 1415  Merevale Abbey, Merevale, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Person ID I13245  Carney Wehofer July 2025
    Last Modified 17 Dec 2024 

    Father Edward II 1St Baron Le DESPENSER, Kg, Sir,   b. 24 Mar 1335-1336, Essendine, Rutlandshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Nov 1375, Llanbethian, Glamorganshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth De BURGHERSH,   b. 1342, Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jul 1409, Glouchestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Marriage 2 Aug 1354  [6
    Alt. Marriage Bef Dec 1364  [7, 8, 9
    Alt. Marriage 
    Family ID F6738  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Baron Robert FERRERS, Of Chartley,   b. 31 Oct 1357, Chartley Castle, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Mar 1413, Merevale Abbey, Merevale, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years) 
    Marriage Aft 1379  2ND Wife Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Alt. Marriage 1385  Chartley Holme, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Alt. Marriage 
    Children 
     1. Baron Edmund FERRERS, Of Chartley,   b. 1386, Chartley Castle, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Dec 1435, Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, Englandmap Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years)
     2. Thomas DE FERRERS,   b. Abt 1389, Chartley, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Dec 1435 (Age ~ 46 years)
     3. Philippa De FERRERS,   b. Abt 1393, Chartley Castle, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Nov 1415, Greene's Norton, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 22 years)
    Family ID F6737  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Dec 2024 

  • Notes 
    • He [Robert de Ferrers] married, 2ndly, Margaret, 4th and youngest daughter of Sir Edward LE DESPENSER, Lord of Glamorgan and Morgannwg [LORD LE DESPENSER], by Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Bartholomew DE BURGHERSH, of Ewyas Lacy, co. Hereford, Stert and Colerne, Wilts, &c. [LORD BURGHERSH]. He died 12 or 13 March 1412/3, and was buried in Merevale Abbey: brass. His widow's dower was ordered to be assigned, 14 April 1413, and on the same day the manor of Bugbrooke, of which she and her husband had been jointly enfeoffed, was liberated to her, the escheator in co. Northants being ordered to take her fealty. She died 3 November 1415, and was buried in Merevale Abbey: brass. [Complete Peerage V:315-7, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

  • Sources 
    1. [S579] Jim Weber.

    2. [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 61-34 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 13-10 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, V:315-7 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 17 Dec 2024), entry for Margaret Le DESPENSER, person ID LYJ2-G1L. (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S289] Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles M o s l e y Editor-in-Chief, 1999, 1030, 26 May 2003. (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 70-35 (Reliability: 3).

    8. [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 13-9, 14-8 (Reliability: 3).

    9. [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, II:427 (Reliability: 3).